Roosevelt students create garden art
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These cheery mushroom garden stakes are some of the garden art products created by eighth-grade students at Roosevelt Academy, to be sold through their new business, GardensEtcetera. The items will first be sold at Pioneer Days, on Lake Wailes, Oct. 27 and 28.
PHOTO BY MARY CANNADAY
Richard Dunlap, an eighth grade student at Roosevelt Career Academy, shows off two of the creations-in-progress through their new business, GardensEtcetera, which features garden art. Garden stakes and bird feeders, as well as eventually Hypertufa planters, will be for sale.
PHOTO BY MARY CANNADAY
Roosevelt Academy eighth-grader Amy Perez, along with reading and language teacher Linda Davis, demonstrate the midway point in the creation of the brightly-colored mushroom plant stakes made through the student business GardensEtcetera.
The word of the year at Roosevelt Academy is teamwork.
Each week, Roosevelt teachers come up with a “word-of-the-week” which they wear on their lapels, seizing opportunities to bring the word to life. The word for last week was “propagation” with the students learning all about reproducing plants from cuttings.
